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APA MINORITY FELLOWSHIPS
INVITES APPLICANTS4 44 Psychiatry residents are invited to apply for APA’s Minority Fellowships Program (MFP). The MFP provides educational opportunities not only to minority residents,
but to any resident interested in providing quality and effective service to minorities and the underserved. The fellowship
provides the funds necessary for psychiatry residents to experience a specialized educational program specifically geared
toward building leaders in psychiatry to improve the quality of mental health care for the following federally recognized
ethnic minority groups: American Indians, Native Alaskans, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, Native Pacific Islanders, African
Americans and Hispanics/Latinos. The fellowship is also designed to involve the resident in the work of the association and
to give APA the perspective of young psychiatrists.4There
are three groups of MFP fellows: APA/ SAMHSA Fellows (funded by the Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration), APA/SAMHSA Substance Abuse fellows (funded by the Centers for Substance
abuse Treatment and Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAT, CSAP), and APA/AstraZeneca Fellows (funded by AstraZeneca). The selected SAMHSA
and Substance Abuse Fellows receive a fellowship award (stipend), based on their post graduate year and
availability of federal funds. AstraZeneca fellows do not receive stipends; however, travel funds are available for specific
APA meetings and special projects. AstraZeneca fellows serve for two years. Psychiatry residents-in-training must be at least
a PGY-2 in July 2010 and remain in training during the entire academic
year. Applicants must be APA members.SAMHSA applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents at the time of application.Federal employees are ineligible. AstraZeneca applicants do not have to be U.S. citizens or permanent residents or graduates of a U.S. medical
school. SAMHSA Substance Abuse applicants must be in their
PGY-5 of training in July 2010 and in a substance abuse training program approved by the affiliated medical school or agency where a significant number
of substance abuse patients are from minority and underserved groups, may apply for the substance abuse segment. All
applicants are welcome to apply regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation or disability.
The deadline for applications is January 30. For more information contact Marilyn King at 703/907-8653 or mking@psych.org. Please visit the fellowship webpage at http://www.psych.org/Resources/OMNA/MFP.aspx
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Applications Invited for Congressional
Fellowship 4
The American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychiatric Foundation,
invite nominations for the Jeanne Spurlock Congressional Fellowship. 4The
Jeanne Spurlock Congressional Fellowship provides all psychiatry residents, fellows and early career psychiatrists a unique
opportunity to work in a congressional office on federal health policy, particularly policy related to child and/or minority
issues. This fellowship was established in honor of the late Jeanne Spurlock, M.D., who was Deputy Medical Director of APA’s
Office of Minority/National Affairs and an advocate for child and minority issues. 4The
recipient will serve a ten-month fellowship on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC starting January 2, 2011. 444 The fellow will be introduced to the structure and
development of federal and congressional health policy, with a focus on mental health issues affecting minorities and underserved
populations, including children. Fellows traditionally help develop legislative proposals, track and analyze legislative initiatives,
arrange hearings, brief Congressmen or Congresswomen and their staff, and interact with their constituents. 4The Fellowship is open to all psychiatry residents, fellows and early career
psychiatrists. Applicants must be APA members, U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Applications, in the form of a
letter, three letters of recommendation, and CV should be sent to Marilyn King; APA Office of Minority/National Affairs, 1000 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1825, Arlington,
VA 22209 by MARCH
12, 2010. This fellowship is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Wyeth. 4Former award recipients: Drs. Sue Ishiyama (Cong. Patrick Kennedy), Ericka Goodwin
(Cong. Donna Christensen), Harsh Trevidi (Sen. Jack Reed), Jose Vito (Sen. Gordon Smith), and Toya Clay (Cong. Janice Schakowsky), Daniel Bober (Sen. Patty Murray) and Vasilis Pozios (Cong.
John Conyers). Dr. Kahlil Johnson is the current fellow who will complete his fellowship in the office of Congressman Edolphus
Towns in November 2009. 4 444 Additional information is available at http://www.psych.org/Resources/OMNA/MFP/spurlock-congressional-fellowship.aspxor by contacting Marilyn King at 703-907-8653, e-mail
mking@psych.org.
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